Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

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Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

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...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

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